Цитаты из книги Whereabouts

When you change houses you always lose something. Every move betrays you, it always cheats you somehow.

Solitude: it’s become my trade. As it requires a certain discipline, it’s a condition I try to perfect. And yet it plagues me, it weighs on me in spite of my knowing it so well.

In the pool I lose myself. My thoughts merge and flow. Everything-my body, my heart, the universe-seems tolerable when I'm protected by water and nothing touches me. All I think about is the effort. Below my body there's a restless play of dark and light projected onto the bottom of the pool, that drifts away like smoke